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The Thirty-Year Genocide - Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 (Hardcover)
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The Thirty-Year Genocide - Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 (Hardcover)
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A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman
Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian
minorities. Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept
across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities, who
had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924,
the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks had been reduced to 2 percent.
Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated
events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an
unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the
first account to show that the three were actually part of a
single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's
Christian population. The years in question, the most violent in
the recent history of the region, began during the reign of the
Ottoman sultan Abdulhamid II, continued under the Young Turks, and
ended during the first years of the Turkish Republic founded by
Ataturk. Yet despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing
autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the
post-World War I period, the nation's annihilationist policies were
remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass
killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, mass rape, and
brutal abduction. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying
cry of jihad. While not justified under the teachings of Islam, the
killing of two million Christians was effected through the
calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation.
Revelatory and impeccably researched, Benny Morris and Dror
Ze'evi's account is certain to transform how we see one of modern
history's most horrific events.
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